Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I like the feature in firefox that lets you type directly into the address bar and if its not a valid web address then it just does a google search and you normally find what you want. But i cant see how I can choose the site it searches through; it changed to Google India a few weeks ago, no idea how I did that, and now I just updated and its searching through some sort of Vuze related google search... I think Vuze tried to install a toolbar add-on which i removed but whatever. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Normally it should use your default search engine you set for the search box off to the right - but to change it... 1. Type about:config in Firefox location bar and press Enter 2. Type keyword in Filter textbox and you will see only the preference keyword.URL. 3. Double-click on keyword.URL and change the value to: http://www.google.com/searchbtnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 looked good but when I tried it I get this error from google The page - www.google.com/searchbtnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=photos+of+children - does not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 looked good but when I tried it I get this error from google The page - www.google.com/searchbtnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=photos+of+children - does not exist. Are you being funny, or are you saying it actually didn't work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 looked good but when I tried it I get this error from google The page - www.google.com/searchbtnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=photos+of+children - does not exist. Are you being funny, or are you saying it actually didn't work? Haha...I was trying to do both. Thanks for the help, are you sure that url is right, or do you know of another one I could try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 looked good but when I tried it I get this error from google The page - www.google.com/searchbtnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=photos+of+children - does not exist. Are you being funny, or are you saying it actually didn't work? Haha...I was trying to do both. Thanks for the help, are you sure that url is right, or do you know of another one I could try? Sorry, it appears I left a crucial bit out: start again with about:config then type browser.search in the Filter bar. There is a setting called browser.search.defaulturl it should be set to http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q= also a setting called browser.search.defaultenginename Make sure you change that from “Yahoo” to “Google” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I don't see the browser.search.defaulturl setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 hang on I might not be on the latest version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 okay I'm all updated and that setting isn't there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Sorry, that was for the old version - look for browser.search.searchEnginesURL and change the value to https://%LOCALE%.add-ons.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/firefox/%VERSION%/search-engines/ This is for 3.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 That setting was already correct. I figured it must have been something to do with that keyword.URL setting so I searched google for help with it; I think I've fixed it now, I eventually found a useful help page here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL Thanks for the help papa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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